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Our mission is to raise awareness of Cambodian culture and the beautifully distinctive traditions of Cambodia. We strive to celebrate and ultimately raise awareness for the beautifully distinctive traditions of Cambodia and integrate them into American Society. Moreover, we strive to make Cambodian Community Day a successful annual event for all communities to enjoy while learning about Cambodian culture.
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goal is to bring Cambodian and American communities from all walk of
lives together in recognition of Khmer achievements that strengthen the
Khmer voice and to exhibit Cambodian heritages. Most importantly, we
like them to have fun while their children learn about our culture.
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The Cambodian Community Day had been celebrated in summer of each year between 1998 and 2000 at Barcroft Park, Arlington, VA. Each event was sponsored in part by the Arlington County, Virginia and led by Mr. Saroeum Tes and Sowatha Chea of Cambodian American Heritage, Inc. Due to a bad weather and a lack of participation from the communities, the event of 2001 was cancelled. Cambodian and American communities in the Greater Washington, D.C Metropolitan area met on Friday July 27, 2001 in the City of Arlington, Virginia and unanimously agree to establish a planning (working) committee to better coordinate, organize, and promote the Cambodian Community Day, referred to thereafter as CCD. The attends of the meeting pledged to make the CCD an annual event and had elected Mr. Ben Bao to chair a CCD committee which has a responsibility to organize, plan and execute the yearly event. Mr. Boran and Ms. Sophia Tep joined the committee as 1st and 2nd Vice-Chair. On July 7, 2002, the committee another successful CCD event at Barcroft Park. In 2003, Barcroft Park had gone a major renovation. The committee decided to look for a new sponsor. The committee made a contact with the Alexandria City, Department of Park And Recreation. The city agreed to sponsor the CCD festival. Since 2003, the festival has been held at Ben Brenman Park, 5000 Duke Street, Alexandria every year. In 2006, Mr. Boran Tum was elected to be the Chairman for a two-year term. We
are an organization whose members are enthusiastic people sharing common
interest in promoting Cambodian culture and heritage. CCD organizes an
event called Cambodian Community Day, a yearly Festival of Cambodian
Culture.
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